B.Hoffmann wrote: [...]
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 21:32 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
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Just make sure that you purge the screwed-up configurations files, i.e. run "dpkg --purge gdm". (A normal uninstall will leave all configuration files in place.) Otherwise you might run into trouble again if you ever decide to reinstall gdm, and at that time you might not remember anymore what the problem was, what you changed, etc.
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I'll make sure of that. Thanks for the purge command - didn't know that one yet. What happens if I just manually deleted these files?
The package management system will still think that these files are
there, so your system will be in an inconsistent state. That might cause
problems if you ever reinstall gdm. (I think the installation scripts
will check if the config files are really there, but I am not 100%
certain.) In general it is better to let the package management system
handle these things and thus take advantage of the fact that everything
fits together so well in Debian.
You can use dpkg to see the status of any package, e.g. "dpkg -l gdm".
The Debian Reference has a nice introduction to all this:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-system.en.html#s-pkg-basics
(The whole document is well worth a glance and can save you a lot of
time and effort.)
Regards,
Florian